New Welsh Review 74, Winter

Editorial:

Writing on the Land (Patrick McGuinness and Matthew Jarvis)
'What do bird-watchers, rock-climbers, walkers, shooters, botanists, offroad 4WD enthusiasts, farmers, parapentists, drag-hunters, mountainbikers, canoeists and anglers have in common other than demands on the same overtaxed natural resource of land?', asks Jim Perrin in his essay in this issue of New Welsh Review. We all make our demands upon the land, and in an increasingly atomised world, this is a striking and important constant: we all remain, in one way or another, animals upon it.read more...

Features

• Land and Freedom by Jim PerrinJim Perrin discusses land and politics in terms of Welsh writing: 'what does that moral and spiritual responsibility for representing this complex physical and cultural entity, which is 'the land', entail?'

• Touch the Snake by John BarnieJohn Barnie considers eco-criticism and how it is based on the premise that the right kind of literature can help relign our imagination towards a biocentric understanding of the world.

• Now You See Her? by Alice EntwistleAlice Entwistle on the 20th-century woman poet in the light of two books from Deryn Rees Jones: Modern Women Poets and Consorting with Angels: essays on Modern Women Poets. Both make a sharp and sustained contribution to the subject.

• Surface Tensions by Cary ArchardCary Archard profiles Paul Burston, a writer and journalist who tries to resist reducing identity to simple categories and who believes that identity is too complex to be defined by sex, gender or birthplace.

• A Writer's Writer by Patricia Duncker on George Eliot• Photo / Poem Collaboration by David Hurn and John Fuller• Time and Tide by Ceri Thomas and Andrew McNeillieRemembering Sir Kyffin Williams

Fiction

• A Boat Trip by Richard GwynFiction extract

• El Zorro by Robert MinhinnickFiction extract

Poems

Reviews

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